- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:06:24 -0400
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org
lachlan wrote, quote: I said *readily available*. Perhaps I should have said easily instead. Selecting properties from the context menu and then reading the alt text in the dialog box is not particularly easy or discoverable for many users. However, unlike video or audio, it's rare that users who can see the image would want to read the alt text. But with multimedia, there are a variety of reasons why a user would choose the alternative format even if they could access the media. unquote alt is VERY easily available to those who can see an image -- in most GUI implementations, @title and @alt are rendered as ToolTips onMouseOver also, as i pointed out earlier, one culture's iconic conventions are another's condundrum, so many many more users may be using @alt to clarify what precisely is meant by a graphical element of a document instance than those who have it exposed to them aurally... gregory. ---------------------------------------------------------------- LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/ Oedipus' Online Complex: http://my.opera.com/oedipus ----------------------------------------------------------------
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